Google Donates $1 Million to Trump 2025 Inauguration, Triple of 2017

• Google is becoming a member of tech corporations like Amazon and Meta in donating to Donald Trump’s inauguration.
• The search big mentioned it’s giving $1 million, greater than triple what it gave Trump in 2017.
• In September, Trump threatened to prosecute Google if he was elected president.

Google mentioned it’s donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s coming inauguration.

“Google is happy to help the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube and a direct hyperlink on our homepage. We’re additionally donating to the inaugural committee,” the corporate’s world head of presidency affairs and public coverage, Karan Bhatia, informed CNBC.

Google’s contribution, which is able to assist fund the celebratory occasions after Trump takes workplace, is greater than triple what it gave in 2017. The search big donated $285,000 to Trump’s first inauguration, per Federal Election Fee filings.

Again in September, Trump mentioned in a Reality Social publish that he would prosecute Google “on the most ranges” if he gained the election.

In his publish, Trump accused Google of “illegally” utilizing its system to show solely “dangerous tales” about him whereas surfacing optimistic reviews about his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Google and Trump’s transition workforce didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.

Trump’s second inauguration, on January 20, has seen donations pour in from a number of corporations and enterprise leaders.

The president-elect has obtained contributions from tech corporations like Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Uber. Like Google, all 4 corporations have donated $1 million every.

That is on prime of the non-public donations made by tech executives like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Each Altman and Khosrowshahi donated $1 million every as effectively.

“One of many massive variations between the primary time period, within the first time period, everyone was combating me. On this time period, everyone desires to be my pal,” Trump mentioned at a press convention in December.

“I do not know, my character modified or one thing,” he added.

Since profitable the election in November, Trump has raised greater than $200 million in donations, of which a minimum of $150 million will go towards the inauguration, The New York Occasions reported on Saturday.

Trump raised $106.8 million for his first inauguration in 2017, per the FEC.